On Thursday, May 23, I joined 100 advertising-tech lovers at 360i's Curation Nation, a special Internet Week installment of 360i's Startup Outlook. The industry-renowned program facilitates closer collaboration between brands and startups.

Last Wednesday, during Creative Week, The One Club held its annual One Show honoring the best ad campaigns of the past year. Creative folks know how to throw a good party (obviously), especially when it comes to an awards reception.

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. – Rapleaf’s Cecily Jaros wondered what she had missed at the Email Insider Summit, gesting on Twitter: “I can't seem to find 'monsoon' on the conference agenda -- can you clear this up?” Sadly, only Mother Nature can and she seems exceedingly uncooperative. There is no sign that the nasty rain and wind, which has rendered the beach outside the Omni Amelia Island useless, will abate until attendees at the MediaPost event have skipped town. …

On Sunday through this morning, search experts descended upon Amelia Island for MediaPost's bi-annual Search Insider Summit for three days of learning and networking in sunny Florida.